So way back in like 1993 or so, concrete marketing in NYC asked us to be part of the sabbath tribute record. Thanks Joe!! I would agree, that is sacrilege! Here’s what he had to say about all of this. Danny was most gracious and wrote me back. I log all that, in case someone cool (like this) follows me, so I chatted him up, and basically asked him what the deal with the After Forever video was, why the song was chosen, and more importantly (to me), if he recalled why and how Bill Ward made an appearance in the video. If you have Twitter, you know you get notified when people follow you. That finally happened this morning (Aug 22, 2012).īiohazard’s drummer Danny Schuler started following the twitter feed for this website. No big deal, if Bill didn’t remember, I’d have to hope someday to run into the guys from Biohazard and ask them. Given I do Bill Ward’s website, I decided to ask him about this, so I sent in a query, and got back a response that I don’t quite recall, but the gist of it was something like “I don’t remember how that came about”. Here, check out the video:įast forward a few years.

Then he popped up in this video, so all that stuff got me thinking Bill Ward again. At this point, Bill’s first solo album (sadly out of print these days) was just four years old, he had come back and played some gigs with Sabbath & Tony Martin in South America, so that was cool.

That was quite cool to me, as Bill Ward was back in my mind, which was a good thing. I wanted to see what they had in mind for the video, and almost straight off I was blown away – they had gotten Bill Ward to appear in there. So when I heard this come on, I also was quite intrigued.

I’ve mentioned to a few people that I’ve felt that Biohazard’s cover was better than the original, which has garnered me some hate mail, but hey – what can I say? I really liked this cover (not that I disliked the original AT ALL – it’s killer, but I really REALLY liked the cover).Īround the time when MTV used to play actual videos, the video for this was in heavy rotation, especially on the old Headbanger’s Ball show (Hey, Riki R!). Added an emphasis and a power that I really got off on. Anselmo), but in this cover, I think it works. I’m not one to get off on swearing in music (hello P. To me, it set the tone for the entire NIB tribute album. That was cool to me, and Biohazard injected a power and a strength into the song with their vibe that I really REALLY enjoyed. So the Nativity in Black tribute album comes out in 1994, and After Forever is not just on there, but it’s the FIRST track. At the time, I didn’t know much about them, but I was intrigued to hear a cover of one of my favorite Black Sabbath tracks. That song has always spoke to me for that reason, so I was quite pleased when I read that it was to be covered in 1994 by the New York band “Biohazard”. After Forever is interesting, because in all the songs that Sabbath has recorded, it’s the only released one that has lyrics that are directly pro-Christian in nature. On that album is one of the more unusual songs in the band’s entire recorded catalogue, that being “After Forever”. Back in 1971, Black Sabbath released their third album, Master of Reality.

Black sabbath after forever